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Symphony No.6 "Pastorale" and Egmont Overture Op.68
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0:00 I AllegroMa Non Troppo "Awakening of cheerful feelings on arrival in the countryside."
12:24 II Andante Molto Mosso "Scene by the brook."
25:35 III Allegro "Merry gathering of country folk."
31:11 IV Allegro "Thunder. Storm."
34:49 V Allegretto "Shepherd's song. Happy and thankful feelings after the storm."
45:48 VI Sostenuto Ma Non Troppo "Egmont Overture"
Conducted by James Loughran
Performed by the London Philarmonic OrchestraSymphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 ‘Pastoral’
Beethoven provided the movements at this symphony with titles, as well as the work itself; but he also declared that he was concerned with sensation rather than depiction — in fact his
own musical reactions to country Iife, and not what life in the country looks and sounds like. There is in fact some pictorial effect in the Pastoral Symphony: the birdcalls at the end of the
Andante sound Iike birdcalls and not like Beethoven’s reaction to birdsong; and the Storm is perfectly vivid, But the work is not a country diary which can be followed step by step, and so
it is probably best to think about the music as music.
The Pastoral was completed quite quickly, for Beethoven, between 1807 and 1808, as a relaxation from the ardours at the Fifth Symphony. The two symphonies were performed together
at a concert in 1808, and both were dedicated to two at Beethoven's princely friends jointly.
The symphony opens at a relaxed tempo but with bracing thoughts, and the subtitle speaks of the blessed exhilaration that the town—dweller feels on breathing country air’. The music is
more lyrical than dramatic, and the ideas which supplement the easy— going first tune are presented in a conversational, almost obviously not quite casual manner, though they are thoroughly expanded as the movement proceeds. The whole thing sounds what it is, a contrast to the electric drama of the Fifth Symphony.
The broad unhurried pace is maintained in the slow movement which was inspired by the landscape at a riverside. As the movement unfolds expansively, so too the music grows more
sonorous and warmer, with the rich advantage at divided and muted cellos. When the famous birdcalls arrive, they are neatly dovetailed into a longer phrase, and the cuckoo call is echoed
unobtrusively in the second half at the phrase by bassoons. The scherzo has the subtitle, ‘High-spirited reunion at country Folk’; it is mercurial and yet sturdy in mood, not at all unlike the scherzo part at the corresponding movement in the Seventh Symphony, Beethoven comes near to tone—painting in the trio section, where it is easy to hear the stamping of hob—nailed boots, but the inspiration has undergone a transformation into musical poetry, and it is more exact to say that the music is danceable, rather than literally danced. Beethoven was in the habit of enlarging his scherzo form by playing the trio section twice, but this time the second trio is interrupted by a pattering figure that heralds the Storm section, for which Beethoven augmented his orchestra with a piccolo, trombones and, for the first time in this symphony, the
drums. When the storm has passed, a sigh of relief from the oboe leads to C major and the finale. And this unorthodox key shows that the movement had actually begun with the Storm in F minor, which is perfectly proper key for the introduction to an F major movement. The descriptive part of the symphony here is the excuse for a reintroduction of the eloquent formal device that Beethoven was simultaneously practising in the Fifth Symphony — an introduction to the finale that sounds like a bridge passage though it isn’t one. The Allegro port of the finale is built on a cowcall, and is headed ‘Shepherds Hymn‘. Like the ﬁrst movement it deliberately avoids drama and obvious symphonic effect, though the climax is overwhelming,
’Egmont' Overture, Op. 84
After Fidelio, Egmont is Beethoven's most substantial dramatic score. As with the third Leonora overture, so the overture to Egmont is a grand tone poem summing up the emotional content
of the drama. Egmont, Prince of Gaure, saved Flanders from the French invasion, at a time in the sixteenth century when the Netherlands were under Spanish rule. He protested against the
decision to make Flanders a Spanish dependency and was arrested and condemned For treason through the machinations of the Duke of Alba, his enemy and the military governor of Flanders. In the overture we hear contrasted moods that express at once the conflict of patriotism and love, and of harsh Spain and suffering Flanders; this is a completely satisfying and convincing ambivalence that is music's special property.

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At the Mann Auditorium, Tel Aviv, 2010Giora Schmidt - violin
Zuill Bailey - cello
Navah Perlman - piano
Itzhak Perlman - conductor
Israel Philharmonic OrchestraLudwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 "Pastoral"
0:10 I. Erwachen heiterer Empfindungen bei der Ankunft auf dem Lande: Allegro ma non troppo
10:14 II. Szene am Bach: Andante molto mosso
22:49 III. Lustiges Zusammensein der Landleute: Allegro
28:40 IV. Gewitter, Sturm: Allegro
32:23 V. Hirtengesang. Frohe und dankbare Gefühle nach dem Sturm: Allegreto
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After the composer had initially referred to the Sixth Symphony as Sinfonia caracteristica and Sinfonia pastorella, by the time of printing he called it "Pastoral" Symphony or "Remembrance of Country Life" and added in brackets "More the expression of feelings than painting". It was a premiered in the Theater an der Wien on the 22 December 1808 under the direction of the composer, who dedicated the piece to Franz JosephMaximilian von Lobkowitz and the RussianEarl Rasumowskij. As early as the first beats of the first movement ("Pleasant, cheerful feelings on approaching the countryside"), the joyfulness and glee are clearly to be seen, feelings which dominate the whole movement. Were one to listen closer, one could almost hear the birdsong. In the second movement ("Scene by the brook") a quiet and gentle thema sounds over the regular rush of the stream, a theme that in the suite is varied in the orchestra section in various ways. In the coda to the movement, the woodwind section imitates the call of the nightingale, the quail, and the cuckoo. The third movement ("Happy gathering of villagers") is kept quite short. After a dancing orchestra theme, the wind instruments, in a chamber music passage, appear one by one and present their skills, until once again the orchestra wins the overhand. This sequence is repeated once and the the accompanying coda goes directly into the dramatic fourth movement ("Thunder-storm") and ends the party of the country folk. At the beginning of the final movement ("Shepherds" song: Grateful thanks to the Almighty after the storm") the horn finally sounds the famous shepherd's call, which ceremoniusly closes the symphony.

''Erwachen heiterer Empfindungen bei der Ankunft auf dem Lande''
Symphony No. 6 in F major, op. 68 ,"The Pastoral" was written almost simultaneously with The 5th Symphony, but differs from it in theme. If Symphony No.5 deals with the struggle and the joy of victory, "The Pastoral" represents the expression of the love the composer holds for nature. In a letter to Therese Malfatti in the summer of 1808, Beethoven said " How happy I am to be able to walk among the shrubs, the trees, the woods, the grass and the rocks! For the woods, the trees and the rocks give man the resonance he needs."
Beethoven's great love of nature, the delight in strolling through the woods of Heilllingenstadt, the fact that he always found his equilibrium in the heart of nature, all these led to the creation of his sixth symphony.
This programmatic endeavor is clearly expressed through the suggestive title of the symphony, as well as through the titles of each segment of it, through this initiating the later direction of his programmatic symphonies and even of his symphonic poems. When he found refuge in the midst of nature, he jotted down themes inspired by the trill of birds, the trickling of creeks or the rustle of leaves. In a notebook from 1803 was found an outline of a river's trickling with the additional note: " The greater the river, the more grave the tone."
Beethoven rose much higher than his predecessors who tried to capture the gist of nature, because he places man with his feelings and sensitivity in the heart of nature. And this is confirmed by the very title he places on the cover of the first edition (Breitkoph & Hartel) and that is: "Pastoral-Sinfonie oder Erinnerung an das Landleben. (Mehr Ausdruck der Emphindung als Mahlerey.)" -- "Pastoral Symphony or Recollection of the Life in the Countryside"

Background

Beethoven was a lover of nature who spent a great deal of his time on walks in the country. He frequently left Vienna to work in rural locations.

The first sketches of the Pastoral Symphony appeared in 1802. It was composed simultaneously with Beethoven's more famous—and more fiery—Fifth Symphony. Both symphonies were premiered in a long and under-rehearsed concert in the Theater an der Wien in Vienna on 22 December 1808.

The composer said that the Sixth Symphony is "more the expression of feeling than painting", a point underlined by the title of the first movement.

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Symphony No.6 "Pastorale" and Egmont Overture Op.68
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0:00 I AllegroMa Non Troppo "Awakening of cheerful feelings on arrival in the countryside."
12:24 II Andante Molto Mosso "Scene by the brook."
25:35 III Allegro "Merry gathering of country folk."
31:11 IV Allegro "Thunder. Storm."
34:49 V Allegretto "Shepherd's song. Happy and thankful feelings after the storm."
45:48 VI Sostenuto Ma Non Troppo "Egmont Overture"
Conducted by James Loughran
Performed by the London Philarmonic OrchestraSymphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 ‘Pastoral’
Beethoven provided the movements at this symphony with titles, as well as the work itself; but he also declared that he was concerned with sensation rather than depiction — in fact his
own musical reactions to country Iife, and not what life in the country looks and sounds like. There is in fact some pictorial effect in the Pastoral Symphony: the birdcalls at the end of the
Andante sound Iike birdcalls and not like Beethoven’s reaction to birdsong; and the Storm is perfectly vivid, But the work is not a country diary which can be followed step by step, and so
it is probably best to think about the music as music.
The Pastoral was completed quite quickly, for Beethoven, between 1807 and 1808, as a relaxation from the ardours at the Fifth Symphony. The two symphonies were performed together
at a concert in 1808, and both were dedicated to two at Beethoven's princely friends jointly.
The symphony opens at a relaxed tempo but with bracing thoughts, and the subtitle speaks of the blessed exhilaration that the town—dweller feels on breathing country air’. The music is
more lyrical than dramatic, and the ideas which supplement the easy— going first tune are presented in a conversational, almost obviously not quite casual manner, though they are thoroughly expanded as the movement proceeds. The whole thing sounds what it is, a contrast to the electric drama of the Fifth Symphony.
The broad unhurried pace is maintained in the slow movement which was inspired by the landscape at a riverside. As the movement unfolds expansively, so too the music grows more
sonorous and warmer, with the rich advantage at divided and muted cellos. When the famous birdcalls arrive, they are neatly dovetailed into a longer phrase, and the cuckoo call is echoed
unobtrusively in the second half at the phrase by bassoons. The scherzo has the subtitle, ‘High-spirited reunion at country Folk’; it is mercurial and yet sturdy in mood, not at all unlike the scherzo part at the corresponding movement in the Seventh Symphony, Beethoven comes near to tone—painting in the trio section, where it is easy to hear the stamping of hob—nailed boots, but the inspiration has undergone a transformation into musical poetry, and it is more exact to say that the music is danceable, rather than literally danced. Beethoven was in the habit of enlarging his scherzo form by playing the trio section twice, but this time the second trio is interrupted by a pattering figure that heralds the Storm section, for which Beethoven augmented his orchestra with a piccolo, trombones and, for the first time in this symphony, the
drums. When the storm has passed, a sigh of relief from the oboe leads to C major and the finale. And this unorthodox key shows that the movement had actually begun with the Storm in F minor, which is perfectly proper key for the introduction to an F major movement. The descriptive part of the symphony here is the excuse for a reintroduction of the eloquent formal device that Beethoven was simultaneously practising in the Fifth Symphony — an introduction to the finale that sounds like a bridge passage though it isn’t one. The Allegro port of the finale is built on a cowcall, and is headed ‘Shepherds Hymn‘. Like the ﬁrst movement it deliberately avoids drama and obvious symphonic effect, though the climax is overwhelming,
’Egmont' Overture, Op. 84
After Fidelio, Egmont is Beethoven's most substantial dramatic score. As with the third Leonora overture, so the overture to Egmont is a grand tone poem summing up the emotional content
of the drama. Egmont, Prince of Gaure, saved Flanders from the French invasion, at a time in the sixteenth century when the Netherlands were under Spanish rule. He protested against the
decision to make Flanders a Spanish dependency and was arrested and condemned For treason through the machinations of the Duke of Alba, his enemy and the military governor of Flanders. In the overture we hear contrasted moods that express at once the conflict of patriotism and love, and of harsh Spain and suffering Flanders; this is a completely satisfying and convincing ambivalence that is music's special property.

At the Mann Auditorium, Tel Aviv, 2010Giora Schmidt - violin
Zuill Bailey - cello
Navah Perlman - piano
Itzhak Perlman - conductor
Israel Philharmonic OrchestraLudwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 "Pastoral"
0:10 I. Erwachen heiterer Empfindungen bei der Ankunft auf dem Lande: Allegro ma non troppo
10:14 II. Szene am Bach: Andante molto mosso
22:49 III. Lustiges Zusammensein der Landleute: Allegro
28:40 IV. Gewitter, Sturm: Allegro
32:23 V. Hirtengesang. Frohe und dankbare Gefühle nach dem Sturm: Allegreto
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After the composer had initially referred to the Sixth Symphony as Sinfonia caracteristica and Sinfonia pastorella, by the time of printing he called it "Pastoral" Symphony or "Remembrance of Country Life" and added in brackets "More the expression of feelings than painting". It was a premiered in the Theater an der Wien on the 22 December 1808 under the direction of the composer, who dedicated the piece to Franz JosephMaximilian von Lobkowitz and the RussianEarl Rasumowskij. As early as the first beats of the first movement ("Pleasant, cheerful feelings on approaching the countryside"), the joyfulness and glee are clearly to be seen, feelings which dominate the whole movement. Were one to listen closer, one could almost hear the birdsong. In the second movement ("Scene by the brook") a quiet and gentle thema sounds over the regular rush of the stream, a theme that in the suite is varied in the orchestra section in various ways. In the coda to the movement, the woodwind section imitates the call of the nightingale, the quail, and the cuckoo. The third movement ("Happy gathering of villagers") is kept quite short. After a dancing orchestra theme, the wind instruments, in a chamber music passage, appear one by one and present their skills, until once again the orchestra wins the overhand. This sequence is repeated once and the the accompanying coda goes directly into the dramatic fourth movement ("Thunder-storm") and ends the party of the country folk. At the beginning of the final movement ("Shepherds" song: Grateful thanks to the Almighty after the storm") the horn finally sounds the famous shepherd's call, which ceremoniusly closes the symphony.

Ludwig Van Beethoven - Symphony No 6, Op 68 - 1st Movement

''Erwachen heiterer Empfindungen bei der Ankunft auf dem Lande''
Symphony No. 6 in F major, op. 68 ,"The Pastoral" was written almost simultaneously with The 5th Symphony, but differs from it in theme. If Symphony No.5 deals with the struggle and the joy of victory, "The Pastoral" represents the expression of the love the composer holds for nature. In a letter to Therese Malfatti in the summer of 1808, Beethoven said " How happy I am to be able to walk among the shrubs, the trees, the woods, the grass and the rocks! For the woods, the trees and the rocks give man the resonance he needs."
Beethoven's great love of nature, the delight in strolling through the woods of Heilllingenstadt, the fact that he always found his equilibrium in the heart of nature, all these led to the creation of his sixth symphony.
This programmatic endeavor is clearly expressed through the suggestive title of the symphony, as well as through the titles of each segment of it, through this initiating the later direction of his programmatic symphonies and even of his symphonic poems. When he found refuge in the midst of nature, he jotted down themes inspired by the trill of birds, the trickling of creeks or the rustle of leaves. In a notebook from 1803 was found an outline of a river's trickling with the additional note: " The greater the river, the more grave the tone."
Beethoven rose much higher than his predecessors who tried to capture the gist of nature, because he places man with his feelings and sensitivity in the heart of nature. And this is confirmed by the very title he places on the cover of the first edition (Breitkoph & Hartel) and that is: "Pastoral-Sinfonie oder Erinnerung an das Landleben. (Mehr Ausdruck der Emphindung als Mahlerey.)" -- "Pastoral Symphony or Recollection of the Life in the Countryside"

Ludwig Van Beethoven - Symphony No 6, Op 68 - 1st Movement

''Erwachen heiterer Empfindungen bei der Ankunft auf dem Lande''
Symphony No. 6 in F major, op. 68 ,"The Pastoral" was written almost simultaneously with The 5th Symphony, but differs from it in theme. If Symphony No.5 deals with the struggle and the joy of victory, "The Pastoral" represents the expression of the love the composer holds for nature. In a letter to Therese Malfatti in the summer of 1808, Beethoven said " How happy I am to be able to walk among the shrubs, the trees, the woods, the grass and the rocks! For the woods, the trees and the rocks give man the resonance he needs."
Beethoven's great love of nature, the delight in strolling through the woods of Heilllingenstadt, the fact that he always found his equilibrium in the heart of nature, all these led to the creation of ...

Collins Classics OFFICIAL - Beethoven (FULL ALBUM)
Symphony No.6 "Pastorale" and Egmont Overture Op.68
Buy it here: http://apple.co/1IRxKWV
Spotify: http://spoti.fi/204jBk0
Read the CD booklet here: http://bit.ly/1JzFqNs
0:00 I AllegroMa Non Troppo "Awakening of cheerful feelings on arrival in the countryside."
12:24 II Andante Molto Mosso "Scene by the brook."
25:35 III Allegro "Merry gathering of country folk."
31:11 IV Allegro "Thunder. Storm."
34:49 V Allegretto "Shepherd's song. Happy and thankful feelings after the storm."
45:48 VI Sostenuto Ma Non Troppo "Egmont Overture"
Conducted by James Loughran
Performed by the London Philarmonic OrchestraSymphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 ‘Pastoral’
Beethoven provided the movements at this symphony with titles, as well as the work itself; but he also declared that he was concerned with sensation rather than depiction — in fact his
own musical reactions to country Iife, and not what life in the country looks and sounds like. There is in fact some pictorial effect in the Pastoral Symphony: the birdcalls at the end of the
Andante sound Iike birdcalls and not like Beethoven’s reaction to birdsong; and the Storm is perfectly vivid, But the work is not a country diary which can be followed step by step, and so
it is probably best to think about the music as music.
The Pastoral was completed quite quickly, for Beethoven, between 1807 and 1808, as a relaxation from the ardours at the Fifth Symphony. The two symphonies were performed together
at a concert in 1808, and both were dedicated to two at Beethoven's princely friends jointly.
The symphony opens at a relaxed tempo but with bracing thoughts, and the subtitle speaks of the blessed exhilaration that the town—dweller feels on breathing country air’. The music is
more lyrical than dramatic, and the ideas which supplement the easy— going first tune are presented in a conversational, almost obviously not quite casual manner, though they are thoroughly expanded as the movement proceeds. The whole thing sounds what it is, a contrast to the electric drama of the Fifth Symphony.
The broad unhurried pace is maintained in the slow movement which was inspired by the landscape at a riverside. As the movement unfolds expansively, so too the music grows more
sonorous and warmer, with the rich advantage at divided and muted cellos. When the famous birdcalls arrive, they are neatly dovetailed into a longer phrase, and the cuckoo call is echoed
unobtrusively in the second half at the phrase by bassoons. The scherzo has the subtitle, ‘High-spirited reunion at country Folk’; it is mercurial and yet sturdy in mood, not at all unlike the scherzo part at the corresponding movement in the Seventh Symphony, Beethoven comes near to tone—painting in the trio section, where it is easy to hear the stamping of hob—nailed boots, but the inspiration has undergone a transformation into musical poetry, and it is more exact to say that the music is danceable, rather than literally danced. Beethoven was in the habit of enlarging his scherzo form by playing the trio section twice, but this time the second trio is interrupted by a pattering figure that heralds the Storm section, for which Beethoven augmented his orchestra with a piccolo, trombones and, for the first time in this symphony, the
drums. When the storm has passed, a sigh of relief from the oboe leads to C major and the finale. And this unorthodox key shows that the movement had actually begun with the Storm in F minor, which is perfectly proper key for the introduction to an F major movement. The descriptive part of the symphony here is the excuse for a reintroduction of the eloquent formal device that Beethoven was simultaneously practising in the Fifth Symphony — an introduction to the finale that sounds like a bridge passage though it isn’t one. The Allegro port of the finale is built on a cowcall, and is headed ‘Shepherds Hymn‘. Like the ﬁrst movement it deliberately avoids drama and obvious symphonic effect, though the climax is overwhelming,
’Egmont' Overture, Op. 84
After Fidelio, Egmont is Beethoven's most substantial dramatic score. As with the third Leonora overture, so the overture to Egmont is a grand tone poem summing up the emotional content
of the drama. Egmont, Prince of Gaure, saved Flanders from the French invasion, at a time in the sixteenth century when the Netherlands were under Spanish rule. He protested against the
decision to make Flanders a Spanish dependency and was arrested and condemned For treason through the machinations of the Duke of Alba, his enemy and the military governor of Flanders. In the overture we hear contrasted moods that express at once the conflict of patriotism and love, and of harsh Spain and suffering Flanders; this is a completely satisfying and convincing ambivalence that is music's special property.

Collins Classics OFFICIAL - Beethoven (FULL ALBUM)
Symphony No.6 "Pastorale" and Egmont Overture Op.68
Buy it here: http://apple.co/1IRxKWV
Spotify: http://spoti.fi/204jBk0
Read the CD booklet here: http://bit.ly/1JzFqNs
0:00 I AllegroMa Non Troppo "Awakening of cheerful feelings on arrival in the countryside."
12:24 II Andante Molto Mosso "Scene by the brook."
25:35 III Allegro "Merry gathering of country folk."
31:11 IV Allegro "Thunder. Storm."
34:49 V Allegretto "Shepherd's song. Happy and thankful feelings after the storm."
45:48 VI Sostenuto Ma Non Troppo "Egmont Overture"
Conducted by James Loughran
Performed by the London Philarmonic OrchestraSymphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 ‘Pastoral’
Beethoven provided the movements at this symphony with titles, as well as the work itself; but he also declared that he was concerned with sensation rather than depiction — in fact his
own musical reactions to country Iife, and not what life in the country looks and sounds like. There is in fact some pictorial effect in the Pastoral Symphony: the birdcalls at the end of the
Andante sound Iike birdcalls and not like Beethoven’s reaction to birdsong; and the Storm is perfectly vivid, But the work is not a country diary which can be followed step by step, and so
it is probably best to think about the music as music.
The Pastoral was completed quite quickly, for Beethoven, between 1807 and 1808, as a relaxation from the ardours at the Fifth Symphony. The two symphonies were performed together
at a concert in 1808, and both were dedicated to two at Beethoven's princely friends jointly.
The symphony opens at a relaxed tempo but with bracing thoughts, and the subtitle speaks of the blessed exhilaration that the town—dweller feels on breathing country air’. The music is
more lyrical than dramatic, and the ideas which supplement the easy— going first tune are presented in a conversational, almost obviously not quite casual manner, though they are thoroughly expanded as the movement proceeds. The whole thing sounds what it is, a contrast to the electric drama of the Fifth Symphony.
The broad unhurried pace is maintained in the slow movement which was inspired by the landscape at a riverside. As the movement unfolds expansively, so too the music grows more
sonorous and warmer, with the rich advantage at divided and muted cellos. When the famous birdcalls arrive, they are neatly dovetailed into a longer phrase, and the cuckoo call is echoed
unobtrusively in the second half at the phrase by bassoons. The scherzo has the subtitle, ‘High-spirited reunion at country Folk’; it is mercurial and yet sturdy in mood, not at all unlike the scherzo part at the corresponding movement in the Seventh Symphony, Beethoven comes near to tone—painting in the trio section, where it is easy to hear the stamping of hob—nailed boots, but the inspiration has undergone a transformation into musical poetry, and it is more exact to say that the music is danceable, rather than literally danced. Beethoven was in the habit of enlarging his scherzo form by playing the trio section twice, but this time the second trio is interrupted by a pattering figure that heralds the Storm section, for which Beethoven augmented his orchestra with a piccolo, trombones and, for the first time in this symphony, the
drums. When the storm has passed, a sigh of relief from the oboe leads to C major and the finale. And this unorthodox key shows that the movement had actually begun with the Storm in F minor, which is perfectly proper key for the introduction to an F major movement. The descriptive part of the symphony here is the excuse for a reintroduction of the eloquent formal device that Beethoven was simultaneously practising in the Fifth Symphony — an introduction to the finale that sounds like a bridge passage though it isn’t one. The Allegro port of the finale is built on a cowcall, and is headed ‘Shepherds Hymn‘. Like the ﬁrst movement it deliberately avoids drama and obvious symphonic effect, though the climax is overwhelming,
’Egmont' Overture, Op. 84
After Fidelio, Egmont is Beethoven's most substantial dramatic score. As with the third Leonora overture, so the overture to Egmont is a grand tone poem summing up the emotional content
of the drama. Egmont, Prince of Gaure, saved Flanders from the French invasion, at a time in the sixteenth century when the Netherlands were under Spanish rule. He protested against the
decision to make Flanders a Spanish dependency and was arrested and condemned For treason through the machinations of the Duke of Alba, his enemy and the military governor of Flanders. In the overture we hear contrasted moods that express at once the conflict of patriotism and love, and of harsh Spain and suffering Flanders; this is a completely satisfying and convincing ambivalence that is music's special property.

At the Mann Auditorium, Tel Aviv, 2010Giora Schmidt - violin
Zuill Bailey - cello
Navah Perlman - piano
Itzhak Perlman - conductor
Israel Philharmonic OrchestraLudwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 "Pastoral"
0:10 I. Erwachen heiterer Empfindungen bei der Ankunft auf dem Lande: Allegro ma non troppo
10:14 II. Szene am Bach: Andante molto mosso
22:49 III. Lustiges Zusammensein der Landleute: Allegro
28:40 IV. Gewitter, Sturm: Allegro
32:23 V. Hirtengesang. Frohe und dankbare Gefühle nach dem Sturm: Allegreto
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After the composer had initially referred to the Sixth Symphony as Sinfonia caracteristica and Sinfonia pastorella, by the time of printing he called it "Pastoral" Symphony or "Remembrance of Country Life" and added in brackets "More the expression of feelings than painting". It was a premiered in the Theater an der Wien on the 22 December 1808 under the direction of the composer, who dedicated the piece to Franz JosephMaximilian von Lobkowitz and the RussianEarl Rasumowskij. As early as the first beats of the first movement ("Pleasant, cheerful feelings on approaching the countryside"), the joyfulness and glee are clearly to be seen, feelings which dominate the whole movement. Were one to listen closer, one could almost hear the birdsong. In the second movement ("Scene by the brook") a quiet and gentle thema sounds over the regular rush of the stream, a theme that in the suite is varied in the orchestra section in various ways. In the coda to the movement, the woodwind section imitates the call of the nightingale, the quail, and the cuckoo. The third movement ("Happy gathering of villagers") is kept quite short. After a dancing orchestra theme, the wind instruments, in a chamber music passage, appear one by one and present their skills, until once again the orchestra wins the overhand. This sequence is repeated once and the the accompanying coda goes directly into the dramatic fourth movement ("Thunder-storm") and ends the party of the country folk. At the beginning of the final movement ("Shepherds" song: Grateful thanks to the Almighty after the storm") the horn finally sounds the famous shepherd's call, which ceremoniusly closes the symphony.

At the Mann Auditorium, Tel Aviv, 2010Giora Schmidt - violin
Zuill Bailey - cello
Navah Perlman - piano
Itzhak Perlman - conductor
Israel Philharmonic OrchestraLudwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 "Pastoral"
0:10 I. Erwachen heiterer Empfindungen bei der Ankunft auf dem Lande: Allegro ma non troppo
10:14 II. Szene am Bach: Andante molto mosso
22:49 III. Lustiges Zusammensein der Landleute: Allegro
28:40 IV. Gewitter, Sturm: Allegro
32:23 V. Hirtengesang. Frohe und dankbare Gefühle nach dem Sturm: Allegreto
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After the composer had initially referred to the Sixth Symphony as Sinfonia caracteristica and Sinfonia pastorella, by the time of printing he called it "Pastoral" Symphony or "Remembrance of Country Life" and added in brackets "More the expression of feelings than painting". It was a premiered in the Theater an der Wien on the 22 December 1808 under the direction of the composer, who dedicated the piece to Franz JosephMaximilian von Lobkowitz and the RussianEarl Rasumowskij. As early as the first beats of the first movement ("Pleasant, cheerful feelings on approaching the countryside"), the joyfulness and glee are clearly to be seen, feelings which dominate the whole movement. Were one to listen closer, one could almost hear the birdsong. In the second movement ("Scene by the brook") a quiet and gentle thema sounds over the regular rush of the stream, a theme that in the suite is varied in the orchestra section in various ways. In the coda to the movement, the woodwind section imitates the call of the nightingale, the quail, and the cuckoo. The third movement ("Happy gathering of villagers") is kept quite short. After a dancing orchestra theme, the wind instruments, in a chamber music passage, appear one by one and present their skills, until once again the orchestra wins the overhand. This sequence is repeated once and the the accompanying coda goes directly into the dramatic fourth movement ("Thunder-storm") and ends the party of the country folk. At the beginning of the final movement ("Shepherds" song: Grateful thanks to the Almighty after the storm") the horn finally sounds the famous shepherd's call, which ceremoniusly closes the symphony.

''Erwachen heiterer Empfindungen bei der Ankunft auf dem Lande''
Symphony No. 6 in F major, op. 68 ,"The Pastoral" was written almost simultaneously with The 5th Symphony, but differs from it in theme. If Symphony No.5 deals with the struggle and the joy of victory, "The Pastoral" represents the expression of the love the composer holds for nature. In a letter to Therese Malfatti in the summer of 1808, Beethoven said " How happy I am to be able to walk among the shrubs, the trees, the woods, the grass and the rocks! For the woods, the trees and the rocks give man the resonance he needs."
Beethoven's great love of nature, the delight in strolling through the woods of Heilllingenstadt, the fact that he always found his equilibrium in the heart of nature, all these led to the creation of his sixth symphony.
This programmatic endeavor is clearly expressed through the suggestive title of the symphony, as well as through the titles of each segment of it, through this initiating the later direction of his programmatic symphonies and even of his symphonic poems. When he found refuge in the midst of nature, he jotted down themes inspired by the trill of birds, the trickling of creeks or the rustle of leaves. In a notebook from 1803 was found an outline of a river's trickling with the additional note: " The greater the river, the more grave the tone."
Beethoven rose much higher than his predecessors who tried to capture the gist of nature, because he places man with his feelings and sensitivity in the heart of nature. And this is confirmed by the very title he places on the cover of the first edition (Breitkoph & Hartel) and that is: "Pastoral-Sinfonie oder Erinnerung an das Landleben. (Mehr Ausdruck der Emphindung als Mahlerey.)" -- "Pastoral Symphony or Recollection of the Life in the Countryside"

''Erwachen heiterer Empfindungen bei der Ankunft auf dem Lande''
Symphony No. 6 in F major, op. 68 ,"The Pastoral" was written almost simultaneously with The 5th Symphony, but differs from it in theme. If Symphony No.5 deals with the struggle and the joy of victory, "The Pastoral" represents the expression of the love the composer holds for nature. In a letter to Therese Malfatti in the summer of 1808, Beethoven said " How happy I am to be able to walk among the shrubs, the trees, the woods, the grass and the rocks! For the woods, the trees and the rocks give man the resonance he needs."
Beethoven's great love of nature, the delight in strolling through the woods of Heilllingenstadt, the fact that he always found his equilibrium in the heart of nature, all these led to the creation of his sixth symphony.
This programmatic endeavor is clearly expressed through the suggestive title of the symphony, as well as through the titles of each segment of it, through this initiating the later direction of his programmatic symphonies and even of his symphonic poems. When he found refuge in the midst of nature, he jotted down themes inspired by the trill of birds, the trickling of creeks or the rustle of leaves. In a notebook from 1803 was found an outline of a river's trickling with the additional note: " The greater the river, the more grave the tone."
Beethoven rose much higher than his predecessors who tried to capture the gist of nature, because he places man with his feelings and sensitivity in the heart of nature. And this is confirmed by the very title he places on the cover of the first edition (Breitkoph & Hartel) and that is: "Pastoral-Sinfonie oder Erinnerung an das Landleben. (Mehr Ausdruck der Emphindung als Mahlerey.)" -- "Pastoral Symphony or Recollection of the Life in the Countryside"

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0:00 I AllegroMa Non Troppo "Awakening of cheerful feelings on arrival in the countryside."
12:24 II Andante Molto Mosso "Scene by the brook."
25:35 III Allegro "Merry gathering of country folk."
31:11 IV Allegro "Thunder. Storm."
34:49 V Allegretto "Shepherd's song. Happy and thankful feelings after the storm."
45:48 VI Sostenuto Ma Non Troppo "Egmont Overture"
Conducted by James Loughran
Performed by the London Philarmonic OrchestraSymphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 ‘Pastoral’
Beethoven provided the movements at this symphony with titles, as well as the work itself; but he also declared that he was concerned with sensation rather than depiction — in fact his
own musical reactions to country Iife, and not what life in the country looks and sounds like. There is in fact some pictorial effect in the Pastoral Symphony: the birdcalls at the end of the
Andante sound Iike birdcalls and not like Beethoven’s reaction to birdsong; and the Storm is perfectly vivid, But the work is not a country diary which can be followed step by step, and so
it is probably best to think about the music as music.
The Pastoral was completed quite quickly, for Beethoven, between 1807 and 1808, as a relaxation from the ardours at the Fifth Symphony. The two symphonies were performed together
at a concert in 1808, and both were dedicated to two at Beethoven's princely friends jointly.
The symphony opens at a relaxed tempo but with bracing thoughts, and the subtitle speaks of the blessed exhilaration that the town—dweller feels on breathing country air’. The music is
more lyrical than dramatic, and the ideas which supplement the easy— going first tune are presented in a conversational, almost obviously not quite casual manner, though they are thoroughly expanded as the movement proceeds. The whole thing sounds what it is, a contrast to the electric drama of the Fifth Symphony.
The broad unhurried pace is maintained in the slow movement which was inspired by the landscape at a riverside. As the movement unfolds expansively, so too the music grows more
sonorous and warmer, with the rich advantage at divided and muted cellos. When the famous birdcalls arrive, they are neatly dovetailed into a longer phrase, and the cuckoo call is echoed
unobtrusively in the second half at the phrase by bassoons. The scherzo has the subtitle, ‘High-spirited reunion at country Folk’; it is mercurial and yet sturdy in mood, not at all unlike the scherzo part at the corresponding movement in the Seventh Symphony, Beethoven comes near to tone—painting in the trio section, where it is easy to hear the stamping of hob—nailed boots, but the inspiration has undergone a transformation into musical poetry, and it is more exact to say that the music is danceable, rather than literally danced. Beethoven was in the habit of enlarging his scherzo form by playing the trio section twice, but this time the second trio is interrupted by a pattering figure that heralds the Storm section, for which Beethoven augmented his orchestra with a piccolo, trombones and, for the first time in this symphony, the
drums. When the storm has passed, a sigh of relief from the oboe leads to C major and the finale. And this unorthodox key shows that the movement had actually begun with the Storm in F minor, which is perfectly proper key for the introduction to an F major movement. The descriptive part of the symphony here is the excuse for a reintroduction of the eloquent formal device that Beethoven was simultaneously practising in the Fifth Symphony — an introduction to the finale that sounds like a bridge passage though it isn’t one. The Allegro port of the finale is built on a cowcall, and is headed ‘Shepherds Hymn‘. Like the ﬁrst movement it deliberately avoids drama and obvious symphonic effect, though the climax is overwhelming,
’Egmont' Overture, Op. 84
After Fidelio, Egmont is Beethoven's most substantial dramatic score. As with the third Leonora overture, so the overture to Egmont is a grand tone poem summing up the emotional content
of the drama. Egmont, Prince of Gaure, saved Flanders from the French invasion, at a time in the sixteenth century when the Netherlands were under Spanish rule. He protested against the
decision to make Flanders a Spanish dependency and was arrested and condemned For treason through the machinations of the Duke of Alba, his enemy and the military governor of Flanders. In the overture we hear contrasted moods that express at once the conflict of patriotism and love, and of harsh Spain and suffering Flanders; this is a completely satisfying and convincing ambivalence that is music's special property.

At the Mann Auditorium, Tel Aviv, 2010Giora Schmidt - violin
Zuill Bailey - cello
Navah Perlman - piano
Itzhak Perlman - conductor
Israel Philharmonic OrchestraLudwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 "Pastoral"
0:10 I. Erwachen heiterer Empfindungen bei der Ankunft auf dem Lande: Allegro ma non troppo
10:14 II. Szene am Bach: Andante molto mosso
22:49 III. Lustiges Zusammensein der Landleute: Allegro
28:40 IV. Gewitter, Sturm: Allegro
32:23 V. Hirtengesang. Frohe und dankbare Gefühle nach dem Sturm: Allegreto
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After the composer had initially referred to the Sixth Symphony as Sinfonia caracteristica and Sinfonia pastorella, by the time of printing he called it "Pastoral" Symphony or "Remembrance of Country Life" and added in brackets "More the expression of feelings than painting". It was a premiered in the Theater an der Wien on the 22 December 1808 under the direction of the composer, who dedicated the piece to Franz JosephMaximilian von Lobkowitz and the RussianEarl Rasumowskij. As early as the first beats of the first movement ("Pleasant, cheerful feelings on approaching the countryside"), the joyfulness and glee are clearly to be seen, feelings which dominate the whole movement. Were one to listen closer, one could almost hear the birdsong. In the second movement ("Scene by the brook") a quiet and gentle thema sounds over the regular rush of the stream, a theme that in the suite is varied in the orchestra section in various ways. In the coda to the movement, the woodwind section imitates the call of the nightingale, the quail, and the cuckoo. The third movement ("Happy gathering of villagers") is kept quite short. After a dancing orchestra theme, the wind instruments, in a chamber music passage, appear one by one and present their skills, until once again the orchestra wins the overhand. This sequence is repeated once and the the accompanying coda goes directly into the dramatic fourth movement ("Thunder-storm") and ends the party of the country folk. At the beginning of the final movement ("Shepherds" song: Grateful thanks to the Almighty after the storm") the horn finally sounds the famous shepherd's call, which ceremoniusly closes the symphony.

Ludwig Van Beethoven - Symphony No 6, Op 68 - 1st Movement

''Erwachen heiterer Empfindungen bei der Ankunft auf dem Lande''
Symphony No. 6 in F major, op. 68 ,"The Pastoral" was written almost simultaneously with The 5th Symphony, but differs from it in theme. If Symphony No.5 deals with the struggle and the joy of victory, "The Pastoral" represents the expression of the love the composer holds for nature. In a letter to Therese Malfatti in the summer of 1808, Beethoven said " How happy I am to be able to walk among the shrubs, the trees, the woods, the grass and the rocks! For the woods, the trees and the rocks give man the resonance he needs."
Beethoven's great love of nature, the delight in strolling through the woods of Heilllingenstadt, the fact that he always found his equilibrium in the heart of nature, all these led to the creation of his sixth symphony.
This programmatic endeavor is clearly expressed through the suggestive title of the symphony, as well as through the titles of each segment of it, through this initiating the later direction of his programmatic symphonies and even of his symphonic poems. When he found refuge in the midst of nature, he jotted down themes inspired by the trill of birds, the trickling of creeks or the rustle of leaves. In a notebook from 1803 was found an outline of a river's trickling with the additional note: " The greater the river, the more grave the tone."
Beethoven rose much higher than his predecessors who tried to capture the gist of nature, because he places man with his feelings and sensitivity in the heart of nature. And this is confirmed by the very title he places on the cover of the first edition (Breitkoph & Hartel) and that is: "Pastoral-Sinfonie oder Erinnerung an das Landleben. (Mehr Ausdruck der Emphindung als Mahlerey.)" -- "Pastoral Symphony or Recollection of the Life in the Countryside"

Background

Beethoven was a lover of nature who spent a great deal of his time on walks in the country. He frequently left Vienna to work in rural locations.

The first sketches of the Pastoral Symphony appeared in 1802. It was composed simultaneously with Beethoven's more famous—and more fiery—Fifth Symphony. Both symphonies were premiered in a long and under-rehearsed concert in the Theater an der Wien in Vienna on 22 December 1808.

The composer said that the Sixth Symphony is "more the expression of feeling than painting", a point underlined by the title of the first movement.

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